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05 Nov 2013, 19:24

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Intel HAXM on OS X 10.9 Mavericks is broken

HAXM is an Intel driver for running a hardware accelerated version of the Android emulator. It works really, really, really well. When it works. However, there appears to be a bug in the latest version of OS X where trying to load a HAXM accelerated Android emulator will cause a kernel panic, and you’ll need to kill your Mac.

Then, set up an emulator in the AVD Manager using the x86 image, and match the RAM to whatever you set in the intel driver setup. Also, make sure to use the ‘use host gpu’ option in the virtual device settings.